July 24, 2019
Walter T. Shaw, the founder of Top Cat II Productions Publishing Group spoke at the African American Cultural Library in Fort Lauderdale. He spoke for an hour where he told the story and how the book “The Bomb Heard Around The World” ( www.thebombheardaroundtheworld.com ) came to be. He was apart of a Q&A segment where he explained the history behind the book, the author Gregory Marquette, and the relevance of this story to the civil rights movement today.
The South Florida community had an overwhelmingly positive response since the release of the book and were heavily invested into the question and answer segment. The audience contributed comments to the conversation about racial inequality in Florida during the 1950’s and were also very knowledgeable about the brave civil rights work Harry T. Moore conducted shortly before his death.
L to R: Pearl and Curtis Mozie, Walter Shaw
“I think it was hard for Henry T. Moore at that time to recruit people into the NAACP because the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was absolutely fearless,” said someone from the audience. “And Harry T. Moore knew the Klan was after him because they were chasing him all the time, while he was trying to register people to vote,” he added.
Others who were also present in support of “The Bomb heard Around The World” were Ted Vernon, who is the owner of Ted Vernon’s Specialty Automobiles, supporters of the project, Curtis and Pearl Mozie, and Ted, the moderator of the event.
The Bomb Heard Around The World represents an era of savage racism, murder, lynchings, police corruption and controversial crime investigations. When former Attorney General Charlie Crist, re-opened this criminal case, it allowed his team to finally draw important conclusions and expose important pieces of evidence which were not available in earlier investigations. This book carries us back to 1951, when Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were murdered on Christmas night in a senseless act of racial terrorism. Their assassinations were part of an on-going crime wave, targeting black Americans, Catholics, and Jews in “Jim Crow” Florida. The media at this time labeled the series of bombings: “Florida Terror’.
The book is available on AMAZON
